When we finally got an arrow in him, it took us another two hours to get him up close to the boat," Dustin Bockman, one of the hunters, told the Associated Press.

"He broke all the lines we could get in him. Finally we got a snare on him and pulled him up high enough and got a shot on him. All in all, it probably took us four-and-a-half hours to actually catch him from the first time we saw him."